Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.